On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 05:24:10PM +0000, g4sra via Dng wrote: > I often have difficulty with correct terminology despite having a very > definite > idea. > > The term 'Installer' applies to the first stage actions taken outside of the > package manager such as partitioning, formatting, bootloader and kernel... > which actually make the build host bootable. There 'may' be other steps in > addition (e.g SSH), but that will be up to the individual performing the > build. > > Can anybody identify any issue with chrooting a shell onto the installed media > 'before' reboot to allow for manual changes (e.g. apt-get) should the builder > wish ? >
But this is something you can already do from the "Installer" (just select "Run a shell", one of the last items in the main menu). > > But then there is the second stage, language selection, keyboard map > selection, > fit for purpose package selection...any of these may change in the future. > So far I have been using the terms 'customise' and 'configure' but neither > of these terms sit well with me. > > Does anybody have a better suggestion for naming the second stage ? I would call it "initial system configuration", maybe? It looks like you have in mind something like the old "yast" in SuSe. There is nothing like that in Debian, AFAIK. At least not something that is shipped by Debian and tailored around Debian. And there is a very good reason for that: you don't have two Debian systems that look exactly the same, so maintaining such a "universal config manager" which allows you to change the system configuration independently of which packages and components you have decided to use would be an enourmous PITA. Debian/Devuan is not a ready-to-use-out-of-the-box distro like Ubuntu or Mint. It's more a pick-what-you-want-and-carry-on distro. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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